Season 1988 MOP Lee Plemel Stanford Teams 48 | Champions Stanford (2nd title) Start date 1988 Finals site Johnny Rosenblatt Stadium | |
Runner-Up Arizona State (15th CWS Appearance) Winning coach Mark Marquess (2nd title) Champion Stanford Cardinal baseball People also search for 1982 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament | ||
The 1988 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament was played at the end of the 1988 NCAA Division I baseball season to determine the national champion of college baseball. The tournament concluded with eight teams competing in the College World Series, a double-elimination tournament in its forty-second year. Eight regional competitions were held to determine the participants in the final event. Each region was composed of six teams, resulting in 48 teams participating in the tournament at the conclusion of their regular season, and in some cases, after a conference tournament. The forty-second tournament's champion was Stanford coached by Mark Marquess. The Most Outstanding Player was Lee Plemel of Stanford.
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Regionals
The opening rounds of the tournament were played across eight regional sites across the country, each consisting of a six-team field. Each regional tournament is double-elimination, however region brackets are variable depending on the number of teams remaining after each round. In 1988, for the first time, the NCAA seeded all six teams in each regional. The winners of each regional advanced to the College World Series.
Bold indicates winner.
All-Tournament Team
The following players were members of the All-Tournament Team.